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1- ma @site THoMAsys. HATTEESLEY, oE TEENTON, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 99,891, dated February 15, 1870.

IMPROVED' SPLIT RING The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentand making part of the same.

To all whom 1t ina-y concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. HA'rrnnsLEr,` of

Trenton, in the county oi' Mercer, and State oi' New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Split Rings; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a f'ull, clear, and exact descriptionofthe same, reference being had t0' the accompanying drawings forming apart of these specifications, in whichd Figure l represents fa splitring operated by my evn'e. l Y

Figure 2 is an open view of a ring. My invention consists ofvonemetallic ring working within another ring or casing, operated hya smallprojection moving in a slot around the outer edge of the casing, inorder to open yand close the ring whenever desired. To enable others ltomake use of my invention, Iv

`will proceed to describethe same.

A, in-fig. 1, represents the outside casing of a split ring, the ,outercircumference of which is slotted to allow a small projection, b, topass around the casing through the slot. This projection b is attachedto an inner ring which moves within the casing A'.

Both rings have an opening, as shown at C in iig. 2, in order to admitany other ring, key, or'f'other article usually carried on pocket rings.Vhen the bow or ring of the key enters the open slot, by moving theprojection b of the inner ring iu either direction the slot C isvclosed, thus vforming a solid ring, the inner ringr materiallystrengthened by the outer casino".

The projection bcan he made of any shape, or the inner ring can berecessed on the out-er edge to answer witnesses.

T. Sl HATTERSLEY.

fitnessesz l A J oHN W. STOUT, FRANCIS SNOWDEN.

